The New Wonderful Museum, and Extraordinary Magazine:: Being a Complete Repository of All the Wonders, Curiosities, and Rarities of Nature and Art, from the Beginning of the World to the Present Year ... Including, Among the Greatest Variety of Other Valuable Matter in this Line of Literature (from an Illustrated Edition of the Rev. Mr. James Granger's Celebrated Biographical History) Memoirs and Portraits of the Most Singular and Remarkable Persons ...R. S. Kirby, 1807 - Characters and characteristics |
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... HOUSES UNDER GROUND . The following Narrative is taken from a printed Paper which is preferved in the BODLEIAN LIBRARY , among the Papers of DOCTOR RICHARD PARSONS , THE paper alluded to as appears at the foot of it , was printed for ...
... HOUSES UNDER GROUND . The following Narrative is taken from a printed Paper which is preferved in the BODLEIAN LIBRARY , among the Papers of DOCTOR RICHARD PARSONS , THE paper alluded to as appears at the foot of it , was printed for ...
Page 2207
... houses , or different rooms of the fame house ; but a hollow voice like a deep figh or groan , prevented any other dif covery . Our adventurers haftily quitted those dark apartments , which they had no fooner done , than the hill funk ...
... houses , or different rooms of the fame house ; but a hollow voice like a deep figh or groan , prevented any other dif covery . Our adventurers haftily quitted those dark apartments , which they had no fooner done , than the hill funk ...
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... house was built by Robert Fitz - Gelran , canon of St. Paul's , for the re- ception of fome Benedictine nuns . The lands which were given them , though not particularly extenfive in any one place , were numerous and scattered ; and they ...
... house was built by Robert Fitz - Gelran , canon of St. Paul's , for the re- ception of fome Benedictine nuns . The lands which were given them , though not particularly extenfive in any one place , were numerous and scattered ; and they ...
Page 2209
... house and revenues of the nuns , but built himself a stately manfion in the neighbourhood . He died May 25 , 1524 , and was buried in a chapel he had himself founded on the fouth fide the choir of the church , where till the diffolution ...
... house and revenues of the nuns , but built himself a stately manfion in the neighbourhood . He died May 25 , 1524 , and was buried in a chapel he had himself founded on the fouth fide the choir of the church , where till the diffolution ...
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... house at Hallywell , where to remain till the Queen's Highness pleasure be further known towards him . " And four years after , on the 21st of October , his wife , Lady Margaret Rutland , was buried from Halliwell at Shoreditch . Soon ...
... house at Hallywell , where to remain till the Queen's Highness pleasure be further known towards him . " And four years after , on the 21st of October , his wife , Lady Margaret Rutland , was buried from Halliwell at Shoreditch . Soon ...
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Page 2614 - I have observed among all nations, that the women ornament themselves more than the men ; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings; that they are ever inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest.
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Page 2374 - The mind can hardly form an idea more magnificent than such a space, supported on each side by ranges of columns and roofed by the bottoms of those, which have been broke off in order to form it; between the angles of which a yellow stalagmitic matter has exuded, which serves to define the angles precisely, and at the same time vary the colour with a great deal of elegance, and to render it still more agreeable, the whole is lighted from without...
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Page 2285 - ... of both which sciences his knowledge was entirely confined to theory. Even physic was not without a charm to allure his imagination, and he would talk of Galen, Hippocrates, and Paracelsus, with all the confidence and familiarity of a modern empiric.
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Page 2442 - Martin's making his i : mediate efcape, and no creature fhould know from Mr. Wilkes how the affair happened. Upon this they parted ; but Mr. Martin came up again in two or three minutes to Mr. Wilkes, offering him a fecond time his affiftance ; but Mr.
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Page 2405 - ... merely by throwing open, for a moment, a door opening into some passage from whence fresh air may be had, and the upper part of a window; or by opening the upper part of one window, and the lower part of another.